Additive Manufacturing Guides
In this section, you will find detailed and data-supported additive manufacturing guides and maps to help you assess the best business opportunities.
The additive manufacturing guides and maps published here are based on findings from VoxelMatters’ market studies and can leverage unique data from VoxelMatters’ growing database, including thousands of different additive manufacturing hardware, materials and printed parts products.
We will continue to expand our additive manufacturing guides and maps to include key information on all core additive manufacturing segments, including metal, polymers, ceramics and composites additive manufacturing, as well as related segments such as construction 3D printing, bioprinting and more.
The additive manufacturing guides explore specific products of families of products to help AM industry operators visualize key market trends and assess market opportunities, supported by 3dpbm Research market data.
Additive manufacturing maps are based on the VoxelMatters Directory, the largest index of additive manufacturing-related companies in the world and offer a complete overview of every relevant operator and technology in a particular AM market segment.
Because VoxelMatters operates as both an industry news outlet, reporting daily on all AM industry activity around the world, and as a market research firm, conducting ongoing in-depth analyses of the AM industry, AM technologies and vertical application segments, our guides and maps are uniquely positioned to guarantee the highest accuracy and validity of the information presented.
If you would like to learn more about these publications, request a custom guide, or propose a topic for further exploration in one of our guides and/or maps, reach out to editorial@voxelmatters.com.
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The AM digital warehouse is already here
In today’s rapidly evolving manufacturing landscape, digital warehousing is emerging as a key transformative solution to address multiple challenges in the face of increasingly complex geopolitical dynamics. With its potential…
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The increasing automation of metal AM post-processing
Post-processing forms an important stage of the metal additive manufacturing workflow. Encompassing a number of distinct techniques, metal AM post-processing may involve basic AM procedures like support removal, process-agnostic procedures…
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All you need to know about the past, present and future of stereolithography
Vat photopolymerization, specifically laser stereolithography or SL/SLA, was the first 3D printing technology on the market. Chuck Hull invented it in 1984, patented it in 1986, and founded 3D Systems.…
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All about TPU and other thermoplastic elastomers for 3D printing
Polyurethanes are one of the most versatile polymers in use today. They are used in a wide variety of applications to create all manner of consumer and industrial products. Polyurethanes…
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Everything you need to know about polymer powder bed fusion
Polymer powder bed fusion 3D printed parts are used in multiple segments, from aerospace to automotive. At the same time, the ability of high-productivity processes such as SLS, MJF, HSS…
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The state of bioprinting
We have been covering 3D bioprinting for nearly a decade, starting back when the bioprinting industry began to expand beyond high-end systems used exclusively for academic research into a young…
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The VoxelMatters map of ceramic AM technologies and companies
All commercially available ceramic AM technologies in the VoxelMatters map of ceramic AM (from VoxelMatters’ Ceramics Additive Manufacturing Market 2025 report) are based on processes that bind ceramic particles to…
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The new map of composites additive manufacturing technologies
This new VoxelMatters Map of Composites Additive Manufacturing Technologies and companies is meant as a base to help users make sense of all the different paths through which composites AM…